by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 7, 2013 | Opinion
Some folks might consider me an embarrassment to my gender, but I confess to being far more hyped over last night’s American premier of Downton Abbey on PBS than today’s BCS title game between Alabama and Notre Dame on ESPN. Image from USA Today sportsI do...
by Mark Tidsworth | Jan 7, 2013 | Opinion
How do you evaluate church? How do you decide if your congregation is doing well? While many factors influence how a person answers these questions, a popular measure is the “happiness factor.” Essentially, members ask themselves how happy or content the...
by Chuck Queen | Jan 7, 2013 | Opinion
A healthy Christian spirituality includes both an internal life of integrity that is developed through a personal relationship with Christ and an external life of ministry that is expressed through self-giving service for the good of others. The life of service...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 4, 2013 | Opinion
There’s nothing like undecorating from Christmas to eat up half a day when you’d rather be doing something else. But it has to be done. I suppose taking down the nativities and wreaths and ornaments offer a natural time for reflection at the beginning of a...
by Raouf J. Halaby | Jan 4, 2013 | Opinion
Just a few days after Jan. 1, 2007, our Sunday school facilitator commenced the morning discussion by posing the following question: “Where do you encounter God?” The answers were varied: “in the Scripture,” “in prayer,” “in...
by Fred Guttman | Jan 4, 2013 | Opinion
In 1903 in Kishinev, which was then part of Russia, there was a terrible pogrom, an anti-Jewish riot. During that riot, 49 Jews were killed and more than 500 were injured. In its aftermath, the Jewish community in the town of Odessa sent a well-known Zionist and...
